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Chilchos Valley Revisited
Text in English & Spanish. This book on the Chilchos Valley in the northeastern slopes of the Andes in Peru attempts to understand how human activities have changed the landscape …
King Harold's Cross Coinage
About AD 975/980, Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark c.958-c.987, introduced the first nationwide coinage in Denmark. The iconography of the coins was clearly Christian with cross …
Chinese Lacquerware in The National Museum of Denmark
The Danish National Museum's collection of lacquer works from East Asia comprises some 350 works, more than half of which come from China. This book presents the museum's …
Husebyer -- status quo, open questions & perspectives
Since the early 20th century the more than 130 hamlets or farms in Scandinavia and Orkney known by the name Husaby, Huseby, Husby, Husebo, etc. have been a key topic in historical, …
Gruel, Bread, Ale and Fish
Six papers by international scholars reporting on studies of food production and food consumption in the North Atlantic area during the Viking Age and Norse Period. At least three …
Crossing Boundaries
The life cycle of a coin is long. One might even argue that its existence as a coin is only a minor part of the recycling of metal. In the field of archaeology, coin finds are …
Crossing Boundaries
The Roman coins found within the area of modern Denmark form the empirical basis of the present study. It is my intention to present and discuss the coins as archaeological …
Peasants & Prayers
It began in 1821 with the finding of the Kingittorsuaq stone, the first evidence of runic writing in Norse Greenland. Researchers were faced for the first time with the language …
Pre-Columbian Woven Treasures in the National Museum of Denmark
The tremendous collection of about 500 pre-Columbian textiles held in the National Museum of Denmark are catalogued in this slightly oversized volume. The textiles, which are …
Reframing The Danish Renaissance
This collection of essays represents the outcome of an international conference which took place at the National Museum of Denmark and the castles of Kronborg and Frederiksborg in …
Story of the Drinking Horn
This book is a broad historical study of the use of drinking horns in Europe, with special emphasis on the Middle Ages. The use of drinking horns was concentrated in Scandinavia, …
La Ceja de Montana
This text is in English & Spanish. This book is the third and last in a series of three focusing on the deplorable development in the Ceja de Selva from Rodriguez de Mendoza to …